01. Major Hayden, Rackspace, visits #theCUBE!. (00:18)
02. Rackspace Private Cloud. (00:35)
03. Ansible and the RedHat Open Source Commitment. (01:57)
04. Open Stack Today and the Rackspace Relationship. (02:25)
05. Rackspace Solutions for Security and Beyond. (04:44)
06. The Surprise of Who is Using OpenStack. (06:13)
07. Rackspace Changes and the Business. (07:41)
08. The Rackspace Relationship with IBM Open Power. (09:11)
09. Final Thoughts on What's Next for Rackspace. (10:33)
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Building businesses out of open-source solutions | #IBMedge
by Nelson Williams | Sep 20, 2016
The open-source movement is taking over business software. There are benefits; open source is usually less expensive, it’s easy to add on functionality and there’s a community to draw on. The trick, though, is making a business out of open-source solutions. One such business is Rackspace, Inc., a managed cloud computing company.
To gain some insight into how open-source business works, Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, visited the IBM Edge 2016 conference in Las Vegas. There, they sat down with Major Hayden, principal architect at Rackspace, Inc.
Building on OpenStack
The discussion started with a look at OpenStack, an open-source cloud computing platform. Hayden pointed out that the OpenStack community is growing like crazy. He mentioned there are a lot of small things Rackspace used to sweat about that it doesn’t worry about anymore. The community produced solutions, so that low-hanging fruit is gone now.
Hayden described OpenStack as being made from a bunch of parts, comparing it to a car. In the same way a customer wouldn’t order a bunch of car parts and try to put them together, businesses rely on Rackspace to put their systems together for them. Together with the customer, Rackspace makes good choices about how OpenStack should be deployed.
Customers and open-source changes
Setting up an installation starts with a process. Hayden explained that for networking and storage, instead of blinding the customer with a myriad of options, Rackspace offers a small selection of recommended choices. Rackspace then customizes the system from there. As for security, it hardens the customer’s infrastructure in an automated fashion.
Along with the technology, Rackspace itself has changed over the years. Hayden felt it was very exciting, because the company often comes across new use cases it has never seen before. If there are changes Rackspace needs to make to meet the customer, it does those shifts.
RELATED: The terrors of racism: Survivors and champions discuss the struggle for human rights | #Inforum16
“We always reorganize ourselves around what customers need,” Hayden said.
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Major Hayden, Rackspace - #IBMEdge - #theCUBE
01. Major Hayden, Rackspace, visits #theCUBE!. (00:18)
02. Rackspace Private Cloud. (00:35)
03. Ansible and the RedHat Open Source Commitment. (01:57)
04. Open Stack Today and the Rackspace Relationship. (02:25)
05. Rackspace Solutions for Security and Beyond. (04:44)
06. The Surprise of Who is Using OpenStack. (06:13)
07. Rackspace Changes and the Business. (07:41)
08. The Rackspace Relationship with IBM Open Power. (09:11)
09. Final Thoughts on What's Next for Rackspace. (10:33)
Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com.
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Building businesses out of open-source solutions | #IBMedge
by Nelson Williams | Sep 20, 2016
The open-source movement is taking over business software. There are benefits; open source is usually less expensive, it’s easy to add on functionality and there’s a community to draw on. The trick, though, is making a business out of open-source solutions. One such business is Rackspace, Inc., a managed cloud computing company.
To gain some insight into how open-source business works, Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, visited the IBM Edge 2016 conference in Las Vegas. There, they sat down with Major Hayden, principal architect at Rackspace, Inc.
Building on OpenStack
The discussion started with a look at OpenStack, an open-source cloud computing platform. Hayden pointed out that the OpenStack community is growing like crazy. He mentioned there are a lot of small things Rackspace used to sweat about that it doesn’t worry about anymore. The community produced solutions, so that low-hanging fruit is gone now.
Hayden described OpenStack as being made from a bunch of parts, comparing it to a car. In the same way a customer wouldn’t order a bunch of car parts and try to put them together, businesses rely on Rackspace to put their systems together for them. Together with the customer, Rackspace makes good choices about how OpenStack should be deployed.
Customers and open-source changes
Setting up an installation starts with a process. Hayden explained that for networking and storage, instead of blinding the customer with a myriad of options, Rackspace offers a small selection of recommended choices. Rackspace then customizes the system from there. As for security, it hardens the customer’s infrastructure in an automated fashion.
Along with the technology, Rackspace itself has changed over the years. Hayden felt it was very exciting, because the company often comes across new use cases it has never seen before. If there are changes Rackspace needs to make to meet the customer, it does those shifts.
RELATED: The terrors of racism: Survivors and champions discuss the struggle for human rights | #Inforum16
“We always reorganize ourselves around what customers need,” Hayden said.
